after fictionalising Elizabeth Macarthur's life, Kate Grenville edits her letters
- Written by: Kerrie Davies, Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
Elizabeth Macarthur [portrait by unknown artist]State Library NSWDo not believe too quickly!
This warning prologue begins Kate Grenville’s novel A Room Made of Leaves (2021), a purported long-lost secret memoir by Elizabeth Macarthur that Grenville “found” hidden in a roof cavity.
The award-winning novel reinvented Macarthur, from...
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